What am I??

tyb525 · February 12, 2013, 08:29:17 PM

Color is accurate.

Thickness is 3/8 for reference

beenthere · February 12, 2013, 08:32:52 PM

paulownia?

Axe Handle Hound · February 12, 2013, 09:29:53 PM

Mulberry is my guess.

WDH · February 12, 2013, 09:42:24 PM

Chinaberry or sassafras.

tyb525 · February 13, 2013, 05:09:43 PM

Not quite ;) it is one of the fastest growing trees in the world, and does grow in Indiana. I cut it myself. :)

WDH · February 13, 2013, 08:32:28 PM

Is it native or is it introduced?

tyb525 · February 13, 2013, 09:59:30 PM

Introduced in the late 1700s I think

WDH · February 13, 2013, 10:02:23 PM

A HA!

(that does not help me

).

You sure that it is not chinaberry ???.

JSwigga · February 13, 2013, 10:19:29 PM

eucalyptus?

tyb525 · February 13, 2013, 10:30:23 PM

It's not chinaberry or eucalyptus, the wood ranges from yellow/brown to green in color. This tree stinks, literally :)

beenthere · February 13, 2013, 10:43:28 PM

Tree of heaven

Ailanthus altissima

tyb525 · February 13, 2013, 10:47:10 PM

Beenthere got it :)

Okrafarmer · February 13, 2013, 10:52:29 PM

Quote from: tyb525 on February 13, 2013, 10:47:10 PM
Beenthere got it

I was just a little too late. The wood stinks when you cut it, doesn't it!

tyb525 · February 13, 2013, 10:58:05 PM

Stinks cause it smells and stinks cause it twists, bows, and warps like crazy right off the saw, or that log did anyways.

Okrafarmer · February 14, 2013, 07:39:08 AM

I milled one and decided that was enough. Ailanthus really is a stinker. Oh, and your lumber looks nicer than mine did, so consider yourself lucky. ;D

tyb525 · February 14, 2013, 03:46:34 PM

What you don't know is that board started out 1" thick. I had to joint and plane it several times (after drying) over a period of several weeks before it decided to settle down and quit moving. I was going to use it for a panel in a jewelry box lid but decided it wasn't stable enough.

mesquite buckeye · February 14, 2013, 06:59:32 PM

Looks like a deodor cedar I know.....

OOPS. Didn't realize you already got there.....Pretty nice for what is an invasive in AZ.

Okrafarmer · April 04, 2013, 06:45:37 PM

Ailanthus is an invasive anywhere on this continent. For all I know, it's invasive on every continent!

petefrom bearswamp · April 06, 2013, 10:17:17 AM

My Dendrology prof told us it was the subject tree in the mid 1900s novel A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

Okrafarmer · April 06, 2013, 11:46:17 AM

Yep, it's what grows in the concrete parts of the earth! Then again, it seems to grow in the pristine parts too, making them somewhat less pristine. Ailanthus is one of the trees that poisons the ground for many other plants.